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Friday, May 9th, 2008
By STEVE VISSER | A former Atlanta police officer testified Thursday that narcotics officers routinely lied under oath when seeking search warrants a practice that led to police killing a 92-year-old woman.
Former Detective Gregg Junnier told a Fulton County jury that detectives would tell judges that they had verified their informants had bought cocaine from dealers ...
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Police Taser Claims Another Life
Saturday, April 26th, 2008
By Shamus Toomey - Chicago Sun-Times |
A 24-year-old Lake View man died Thursday, five days after suburban Cincinnati police shocked him with a Taser outside a bar there.
Kevin Piskura, 24, of the 800 block of West Fletcher, had been hospitalized since the incident at 2 a.m. Saturday outside a bar in Oxford, Ohio, and he died Thursday afternoon at University Hospital in ...
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China police “shoot two” in village land protest
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
HONG KONG (Reuters) |
Chinese police opened fire during a clash over land use between villagers and employees of China's number two gold miner, killing two and wounding more than 20, a Hong Kong newspaper said on Tuesday.
Beijing, terrified of social unrest ahead of the Olympics in August, has cracked down on recent protests over the arbitrary use of land by powerful local interests.
Ming ...
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Family wants answers after Taser death
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008Eyewitness News Indianapolis - The family of a man who died after being stunned with a Taser by police is considering taking legal action. They believe the Taser played a role in his death and plan to sue either the manufacturer or Indianapolis Metro Police. It was after a scuffle with police inside the O'Charley's restaurant on 38th Street Friday night when Henry Orlando Bryant stopped breathing and died. "It's sad. ...
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Police arrest 80 year old anti-war protester
Monday, March 31st, 2008An 80-year-old church deacon was removed from the Smith Haven Mall yesterday in a wheelchair and arrested by police for refusing to remove a T-shirt protesting the Iraq War. Police said that Don Zirkel, of Bethpage, was disturbing shoppers at the Lake Grove mall with his T-shirt, which had what they described as "graphic anti-war images." Zirkel, a deacon at Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal in Wyandanch, ...
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VIDEO: Religio-Fascist thought police at work
Friday, March 28th, 2008The Bible actually as something to say about these people: "It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones." (King James Version) Luke: Chapter 17. Verse 2. In other words, turning children into robot-propagandists to serve some wacko political agenda is a sin of the highest order. These are the same morons ...
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On Frontlines in Tibet, Protestors ‘Shot Like Dogs’
Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
Unconfirmed Reports From Tibet of Dozens of Civilians Killed in Crackdown
The Chinese military is shooting Tibetan demonstrators "like dogs," a Tibetan exile group said Monday, firing "indiscriminately" intro groups of people protesting Chinese rule.
The accusation was leveled by the Tibetan Center for Human Rights and Democracy, a group run by exiled Tibetans in Dharamsala, India, home to the Dalai ...
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Web Hosting Company Silences Police Watchdog
Friday, March 14th, 2008A new web service that lets users rate and comment on the uniformed police officers in their community is scrambling to restore service Tuesday, after hosting company GoDaddy unceremonious pulled-the-plug on the site in the wake of outrage from criticism-leery cops.Visitors to RateMyCop.com on Tuesday were redirected to a GoDaddy page reading, "Oops!!!", which urged the site owner to contact GoDaddy to find out why the company pulled the ...
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UK Legalizes Taser Use On Children
Thursday, February 14th, 2008LRC The Brits have taken a giant leap ahead in the race towards totalitarianism. The police have been given permission to zap all violent suspects, even if they are unarmed and even if they are children. Home Office Police Minister Tony McNulty said medical assessments had confirmed the risk of death or serious injury from Tasers was "low". The relaxing of restrictions on the use of the weapons ...
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Quarter of police face conduct inquiries
Wednesday, February 13th, 2008Almost a quarter of Dyfed- Powys Police force's 1,200 police officers have been investigated for allegations of misconduct, corruption or failure in duty in less than a year. Over about 11 months in 2007, 283 constables, sergeants and inspectors faced a probe by the force's professional standards department (PSD). The shock figures were revealed after an Evening Post reporter requested details under the Freedom of Information Act....
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The threat of a police state looms over us
Sunday, February 10th, 2008By Dave Snyder The FBI is planning to announce the awarding of a $1 billion, 10-year contract in an increased effort to "protect the borders to keep the terrorists out, protect our citizens, our neighbors, our children so they can have good jobs, and have a safe country to live in," in the words of FBI Biometric Services Section Chief Kimberly Del Greco. This seems to be a ...
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US woman abused by police
Saturday, February 9th, 2008[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rq3jV1_GOTs[/youtube] This is common treatment for women in US jails The is absolutely nothing unusual about women being stripped naked and left without covering of any kind in cold jail cells for hours at a time. It's a popular humiliation technique used in corrupt police departments throughout the country. If it weren't for this video, a TV local station's news report, and the Internet, no one would know that ...
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Britain is becoming a police state
Wednesday, February 6th, 2008The pretence of oversight has been ripped aside by the Khan bugging affair: the security apparat has become a law unto itself Simon Jenkins Wednesday February 6, 2008 The Guardian The machine is out of control. Personal surveillance in Britain is so extensive that no democratic oversight is remotely plausible. Some 800 organisations, including the police, the revenue, local and central government, demanded (and almost always got) 253,000 intrusions ...
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Man dies after being shot with Taser gun
Monday, January 21st, 2008Katie Dawson A man who died after being shot by police with a stun gun had fatally injured himself, detectives said last night. Armed officers were called to an incident in the Goldington area of Bedford at 7pm on Saturday after reports of a dispute between a mother and a son, Bedfordshire Police said. Officers used the Taser gun after the knife-wielding man, who was in his thirties, threatened ...
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VIDEO: Police Arrest Brian Haw and Protesters
Sunday, January 13th, 2008If The Video Does Not Load Click Here To View ...
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